Improvement in clothes-rack and ironing-board



' H. .0. WOOD WORTH. Clothes-Rack and Ironing-Board. No. 211,613,

.Patentd'lam 21, 1879 UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

HENRY O WOODWOlRTH, OF OTISVILLE, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-RACK AND lRONlNG-BOARD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 211,61 3, dated January 21, 1879; application filed August 17 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be i t known that I, HENRY O. Woonwonrn, of Otisville, in the county of Genesee, State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in a Combined Clothes-Rack and Ironing- Board, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes-drying a. The parts of this frame are provided with drying-bars b, and the bottom of each part is secured by lateral and cross braces, as shown, the lateral brace a being cut away, as shown, for the purpose hereinafter described. The other part of the frame is provided with open boxes or bearings d. 13 represents the ironin g-board, to the under side of which is hinged Fig. 2 is a perspective of the.

the folding leg 0. This board is provided with trunnions f and a projecting flange, g. The trunnions support the board in the open boxes above named, and the flange passes through the cut-away brace c and engages therewith, as shown, and the board is held in this position'by the buttons h.

When not in use the buttons aredisengaged, the outer end of the board turned upward upon its trunnions, resting between the sides of that portion of the frame upon which it is hung. The other portion of the frame then folds in upon and over the whole.

WVhen it is desired to use the frame without the board, the latter is disengaged from its bearings and withdrawn.

1 am aware of the patent of Charles Bar low granted May 21,1878, and hereby disclaim the devices covered by such patent as making any part of my invention; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Ina clothes-drying rack, constructed substantially as described, the cut-away lateral brace'c and the open boxes or bearings 61, for supporting a removable and swinging ironin g-board, substantially as set forth.

HENRY O. WOODWORTH.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, A. BARTHEL. 

